Target-carrier.



W. N. PICKETTL TARGET CARRIER.

: APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I3, I9I4- l.,16,?53; Patented Nov. 16, 1915;

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'W. N. PICKETT.

TARGET CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1914.

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WILLIAM N. PIGKE'IT, OF RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA.

TARGET-CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. PIOKETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Richmond, in the county of Contra Costa and State of California, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Target-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shooting ranges or galleries, and the main object thereof is to provide means for exposing a target in position for practice, delivering the same to the marksmen, and returning a fresh target to practice position, without requiring the op erator to expose himself to the common danger of being shot, or of the loss of time now necessary to carry a target from the practice position to the marksman, and to substitute a fresh target for the one removed.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus in the position of a marksman, or range operator; Fig. 2 is a view of the apparatus at the normal target position, with the target carrier held thereat; Fig. 3 is an enlarged, partial, section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings forming a part of this application'I have shown a present preferred form of embodiment of my invention, comprising a carrier 5 movable along a wire 6, an engaging hook 7 on a plate 8 in the normal target position and provided with a cord 9, and the apparatus in the position of the marksman.

The carrier 5 comprises a cylinder 11 closed at each end but having a rod 12 projecting from the end thereof farthest from the marksman, which rod is normally held in outermost position by means of a spring 13, and the cylinder 11 is supported upon the wire 6 by means of pulleys 14, and provided with a lug 15 adapted for engagement with the hook 7, which is normally forced upwardly by means of a spring 16 and constitutes a latch for normally holding the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

Application filed September 13, 1914. Serial No. 862,318.

cylinder 11 in its position farthest removed from the marksman.

The rearward end of the cylinder 11 carries an arm 17 provided with a rack 18 arranged above the wire 6, and with an arm 19 thereunder carrying a cylinder 20 within which is a rod 21 carrying a dependent lip 22 at its forward end andnormally held in rearward position, as shown in Fig. 2, by means of a spring 23, the lip 22 acting, with a fixed lip 24 on the cylinder 20 as a clutch for a card 25 which constitutes the target, but it will be seen that, if the rod 21 is forced forwardly, the target card is released and will fall from the carrier.

The apparatus in the position of the marksman comprises a support 26 having a gear-wheel 27 rotatable thereon and in such position as to be engaged by the rack 18 in the rearward movement of thecarrier 5, as clearly shownin Fig. 1, and said gear is joined to a sprocket-wheel, not shown in detail, by means of a suitable clutch, indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, permitting free revolution of the gear 27 in a direction opwheel with it when revolved in the direction of the arrow, and which sprocket-wheel is connected with a sprocket-wheel 28 on a shaft 29 arranged in a box 30 secured to said support 26, and which shaft carries wheels 31 within said box.

Horizontally slidable in channels 32 in the sides of the box 30 is a target magazine 33, which is also supported by means of antifriction rollers 34 moving upon the bottom of the box, and said magazine is normally forced forwardly by means of one or more weights 35carried by cords 36 guided over a pulley 37 and secured to the back 38 of the magazine 33, a plurality of targets being shown in said magazine.

The top of the box 30 is slotted in the position of the outermost target in the magazine, and said slot is protectedby spring clips 39 to prevent the upward passage. of

more than one fresh target at a time, the

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a supplemental, idle, roller 41 to limit the forward movement of the fresh targets in the magazine.

Also supported upon the support .26 ,is a cylinder 42 arranged in the a-Xialline of the carrier cylinder 11, and Within which is a plunger 43 normally forced forwardly by means of a spring lei, being retracted by means of a cord or cable 45 passed over suitable pulleys 46 and 4:7 and thence to a pedal gets-upon the floor or. ground, or-in any other suitable place, and said plunger is held in retracted position by means 'of a latch 49 eeetee ieeteru te l t e l be e ie e l n e e e 50 en t Pleeee teei let eia p yet -ete end be tteine m y iheld r me leek ne i eeitie by meets o e ea ing .2-

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It will thus be seen that I provide a carrier for a target which brings the used target, to; the marksman, and engages a new target for carriage to the normal target position, and I also provide suitable actuating mechanism for the carrier in the two directions, thus eliminating anypossibility of, thetoperatorbeing shot, as he is not compelled to walk the length of the range to secure the used target,

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therefor, and means connected With said WILLIAM N. PICKETT. carrier for actuating said latch to release Witnesses:

said plunger to return said carrier to nor- LE0 LEE,

mal position. B. MGWHORTER.

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